<p>For a sense of perspective:</p>
<p>Dartmouth</a> News - From its largest pool of applicants for undergraduate admissions to date, Dartmouth invites 2,190 to join the Class of 2012- 03/31/08</p>
<p>No class in history has had it as rough as the class of 2012. As a result, colleges everywhere have had to turn down extremely well qualified applicants. Which means a lot of very competitive students may end up attending a lot of excellent schools that were perhaps not their 1st choice. But, as so many have said, by October of 2008, an overwhelming majority of students will be attending their first choice - because they will have fallen in love with their school. So congratulations to everyone!</p>
<p>A lot of my friends were rejected. I’m sorta glad I applied early.</p>
<p>Well, what about next year? More competitive?</p>
<p>well procrastination, i don’t know about dartmouth in particular, necessarily, but from what i heard, unfortunately admissions have become increasingly more difficult in the past few years, but the level of difficulty reached its peak this year with the class of 08. apparently it will start getting a bit easier overall next year and continue to taper off to a bit more of a reasonable level. but again, this is just hype and predictions, so it’s difficult to know for sure.</p>
<p>yeah, ive heard that this was the hardest year ever (i.e. a peak) because this is the height of the baby boom echo</p>
<p>what was the ED admission rate?</p>
<p>i read 13% somewhere</p>
<p>That’s not ED admission rate. 13% was the overall admissions rate.</p>
<p>Well, that’s somewhat comforting. I looked up birth rates for the past hundred or so years, and it seems like '13s have 60,000 less competitors (compared to this year’s '12s). 2 years ago (when admissions were reasonable), there were around 100,000 less individuals in the high school graduating class.</p>
<p>2 kids from my school got accepted!</p>
<p>I heard the ED rate was around 30 percent. There’s a thread on the CC board somewhere about that- look it up.</p>
<p>Part of the issue is that part the application of strategy of an increasing number of students seems to be to apply to even more schools on average than in the past few years, as a way to hedge against the greater competition - but, clearly, that exacerbates the problem.</p>
<p>^ That sounds like the wage-price spiral that we are learning about in AP Macro right now!</p>
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<li>Workers demand higher wages, because prices are going up. And since workers are getting paid more, prices go up further. Then the workers need higher wages to maintain their standard of living, so demand more money … etc.</li>
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